Newswise — WASHINGTON (Feb. 19, 2016) – The Zika virus pandemic in the Americas is the topic of several talks at the 17th International Congress on Infectious Diseases (ICID), March 2-5, 2016 in Hyderabad, India. Georgetown infectious disease expert Daniel Lucey, MD, MPH, will deliver a presentation titled “WHO Reforms and UN Action” during the “Ebola and Beyond: Preparing for the Next Pandemic” symposium.
WHAT:Oral presentation: “WHO Reforms and UN Action”
WHO:Daniel Lucey, MD, MPH, Senior Scholar at the O’Neill Institute for National and Global Health Law at Georgetown University; adjunct professor of medicine at Georgetown’s School of Medicine
WHEN:Thursday, March 3, 2016, 15:45 - 17:45hrs
WHERE:The 17th International Congress on Infectious DiseasesHyderabad International Convention Center, India Hall 2
Lucey is a physician trained in infectious diseases and public health. He has taught for more than a decade at Georgetown on global emerging infectious diseases. Earlier this month, Lucey visited Recife, Brazil to meet with clinicians and epidemiologists about the epidemics of microcephaly and Zika. In the fall of 2014, Lucey worked in Sierra Leone and Liberia during the Ebola crisis.
Lucey completed his infectious disease training and MPH at Harvard, and worked in the US Public Health Service at the NIH. In addition to work involving Zika and Ebola, his past work on global viral diseases includes MERS, SARS, H5N1 and HIV/AIDS.
The O’Neill Institute for National and Global Health Law at Georgetown University is the premier center for health law, scholarship, and policy. Its mission is to contribute to a more powerful and deeper understanding of the multiple ways in which law can be used to improve the public’s health, using objective evidence as a measure. The O’Neill Institute seeks to advance scholarship, science, research, and teaching that will encourage key decision-makers in the public, private, and civil society to employ the law as a positive tool for enabling more people in the United States and throughout the world to lead healthier lives.
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